Crotch construction



Feb. 20, 1951 RQSEN 2,542,210

CROTCH CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. 19, 1949 I I I p. 4 I I I I I I f.

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fsz'clor R0587? Patented Feb. 20, 1951 CROTCH CONSTRUCTION IsidoreRosen, Bronx, N. Y., assignor to Roscoe Manufacturing Company, New York,N. Y., a

partnership Application January 19, 1949, Serial No. 71,616

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in ladies underwear and hasparticular reference to a panty garment.

An object of the invention is to provide a novel construction of seam insuch a garment at points where the body portion thereof is connected toa crotch portion, so that the stitching at these junctures does not comeinto contact with the body of the wearer and cause any irritationtherein.

A further object is to provide a simple and efficient construction ofseam which can be very readily produced without the use of anyparticular additional apparatus that is not well known and in use.

In brief and general terms, it is to be noted that the crotch of a pantygarment in this case is made of two layers of material which are joinedat the front and the rear to the body portion of the garment. If theordinary construction of seam is employed, then the stitches connectingthese portions would contact the body of the wearer and might possiblycause irritation or chafing. Therefore, at each end of the crotch membercomposed of two layers of material, I dispose the two layers on oppositesides of the edge of the body portion to which they are to be joined ina laterally abutting relation with the ends of the three layers lying inthe same plane. I then sew them together with an over-lock stitch whichproduces a whipped seam. After producing this scam, I then fold the twocrotch layers over the stitching to cover the seam, thus protecting thebody of the wearer from the contact with the more or less rough linestitches. This sort of seam is produced at each end of the crotchelement and can be readily effected by the manipulation of the parts.Generally speaking, the seam is stitched to the parts in an inside outrelation and after the seam is formed, the parts are disposed in areverse relation thereby effectively covering the stitching.

The preferred form of the invention is illustrated in the drawings, ofwhich- Fig. 1 is an elevation of the completed garment;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the whipped seam before theparts are reversely folded;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, showing thewhipped seam and the parts in their folded covering position; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the garment showing at the left, theseam and the parts after the seam has been formed and the parts arefolded into ultimate position and at the right,

the seam just after it has been formed and before the parts are foldedinto their ultimate position.

Referring now merely to the specific form of the invention illustrated,it is applied in this particular form to a panty garment 19 having acrotch element formed of two layers of material I I and 12, which areadapted to be connected at each end to the body portion of the garment.

In Figure 2, the body portion IE] is shown disposed intermediate to twolayers II and. [2 of the crotch portion in a laterally abutting relationand with their end edges in alignment. Any suitable means is thenemployed to sew these three layers together by a lock stitch formationl3 thus producing a whipped seam. After this seam is produced, thecrotch layers ii and 12 are then folded down to the position shown inFigure 3, in which position they effectively cover the line of stitchingand prevent any .irritation of the body of the wearer. By suitablemanipulation of the garment, as shown in Figure 4, a similar seam isformed on the other end of the crotch and after the seam is formed, theparts are reversed.

This invention is clear, simple, elficient, extremely easy to produceand. effectively protects the body of the wearer from any unnecessarychafing or irritation.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A panty garment comprising a body portion and a crotch portioncomposed of two layers of material, said crotch layers connected atopposite ends to the body portion by means of a whipped seam, the layersof the crotch portion after the seam is formed bent over to cover thestitching on each side of the seam.

2. A panty garment which comprises a body portion, a two layer crotchportion connected to the body portion on each end thereof by means of anover-locked stitch to form a whipped scam, the layers of the crotchportion bent reversely over the opposite sides of the seam to cover thestitching thereof.

ISIDORE ROSEN.

REFERENCE S CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,371,841 Berkwits Mar. 15, 19211,674,618 Di Cio June 19, 1928 1,787,113 Larson Dec. 30, 1930 2,342,187Gardner Feb. 22, 1944

